Participation of the ingredients used in poultry on intestinal health

What hasn’t changed?

• The objective is sustainability through greater profitability based on productive efficiency.
• The commercial alliance with suppliers of goods and services.
• Little attention in education programs about aspects of nutrition and feed.
• The uncertainty in the symptomatic, presumptive, confirmatory, and differential diagnosis and the prognosis.
• Maintain the medical criterion of treating an illness and not the sick.
• Diagnosis based on macro and microscopic lesions, with little support in metabolic studies for a comprehensive diagnosis.
• Little attention to the glands of the digestive system.
• Limited application of symptomatic support treatments to restore the state of health.
• Little attention to daily feed consumption and less to water.
• Little attention to feeder/bird space, water quality, and feed preservation on-farm (silos).

Gut Health Ingredient Considerations

The nutrients not absorbed in the digestive system will be substrates for microorganisms; therefore, we will be talking about two ecosystems. The percentage of fat, quality, and quantity of fiber, the imbalance of ions, among other aspects, affect the speed of transit of the feed bolus and exert a direct action on fermentation, viscosity, digestion, the proliferation of microorganisms, intestinal integrity, and quality of the defecations.

→Concentrated Sources of Energy

The primary source of ME is carbohydrates, but their contribution is not enough to cover the birds’ nutritional needs. All chicken diets are high in ME, so the term “low nutrient density” is relative and incorrect. The inclusion level of oils/fats largely determines the energy density and cost of the feed.

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